Panama

Newton: What about the Port of Los Angeles?

2013-04-29 00:00:00

It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police...

Venezuelan judge rejects call for recount

2013-04-17 19:36:00

CARACAS, Venezuela — Even before any legal motion was filed, the pro-government head of Venezuela's Supreme Court on Wednesday slapped down demands for a recount of the hotly contested presidential election that gave a narrow victory to Hugo Chavez'...

Skulls of alligator kin shed new light on reptiles' murky history

2013-03-04 15:42:00

Two skulls found in the Panama Canal Zone shed new light on the migration history of caimans, southern relatives of the alligator – and also hint that North and South America were much closer together earlier than previously thought. The new study...

Review: 'Port of Shadows' restored to its poetic realist glory

2013-01-31 17:53:00

It was the only French film of the 1930s, Simone de Beauvoir reported, that she and Jean-Paul Sartre jointly admired, largely for "the fog of despair enveloping the entire film." Yet it was banned by the Vichy government on moral grounds, accused of...

Pictures in the News | Jan. 24, 2013

2013-01-24 11:13:02

Feds levied record fines against airlines in 2012

2013-01-02 11:06:00

On the final day of the year, the U.S. Department of Transportation levied fines against two airlines that kept passengers stranded on delayed flights, pushing the number of violations issued against airlines in 2012 to a record. The federal agency...

GM salmon: FDA's assessment of environmental risks

2012-12-24 15:42:00

Genetically modified salmon moved closer to the market last week with release of draft documents from the Food and Drug Administration that assessed the environmental risks posed by AquAdvantage salmon, which grow faster than regular Atlantic salmon....

Port strike numbers are out to sea

2012-12-05 02:25:00

Big, round numbers always get people's attention. Numbers such as $1 billion, which has been bandied about as the economic loss per day nationally from the eight-day strike that shut down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That figure...

Employees launch the cargo vessel Nancy Lykes

2012-11-28 00:13:54

Four Texas police officers arrested in cocaine smuggling probe

2012-12-14 13:47:00

HOUSTON -- Four South Texas law enforcement officers, including the sons of a local police chief and sheriff, are accused of taking thousands of dollars in bribes to guard shipments of cocaine that were smuggled across the border. Alexis Rigoberto...

Latin American nations among the most upbeat, poll finds

2012-12-20 04:00:00

Latin American countries are among the most upbeat in the world, while Singapore, Armenia and Iraq fall at the bottom in “positive emotions,” according to a Gallup poll released this week. Researchers who surveyed people in 148 countries...

Repair of Balboa Park damage from squirt-gun fight almost done

2012-08-20 16:23:43

Gene and Marilyn O'Rourke of Corona del Mar and Paul and Darlene Kuhn of Newport Beach recently cruised through the Panama Canal on the Coral Princess.

2013-05-13 09:58:00

Lisa Flack of Lighthouse Point fights the 450-pound black marlin in Panama that gave her a Billfish Royal Slam,

2013-05-09 00:00:00

Another Facebook fool. A Panama City Beach hotel reported the theft of $500 of Dom Perignon champagne in February after an inventory of supplies showed three bottles were missing, according to a news release from the Bay County Sheriff's Office.

2013-04-15 00:00:00